# Location component accuracy

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/location-component-accuracy/84901>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [October 14, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/location-component-accuracy/84901 "2025-10-14T14:54:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![emacwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@emacwillie](https://community.glideapps.com/u/emacwillie)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/location-component-accuracy/84901/1 "2025-10-14T14:54:35Z")

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I’ve created a form for people to report issues related to flooding and climate change and am using the location component in the form. The map of submitted issues is all over the place in terms of accuracy, regardless of who has submitted it. I understand there may be some user error if they start to walk away from the site they are mapping before the entry has uploaded but this seems like more than user error. Any suggestions for this? Is this a Glide issue? Could this be a Mapbox problem? I would expect current phones to have relatively accurate GPS, but could it be a phone issue?

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/location-component-accuracy/84901/2 "2025-10-15T00:00:27Z")

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How big is the error you’re experiencing? Maybe you can try Radar’s Track Once feature?

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**Author:** ![emacwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@emacwillie](https://community.glideapps.com/u/emacwillie)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/location-component-accuracy/84901/3 "2025-10-30T14:31:03Z")

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The error is pretty big for the purposes of the map - like a New York City block. Would the Track Once feature require custom integration? Right now I’m using the free version of Glide

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/location-component-accuracy/84901/4 "2025-10-30T23:40:45Z")

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It requires the Radar integration.